Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Having developed quite a number of open data / mobile apps at the University of Aegean and National Technical University of Athens, I was glad to listen to Nikos Loutas ( @nikosloutas ) presentation at the "Uses of Open Data" workshop in Brussels, organised by the CrossOver project.
His proposal for structuring a simple metadata schema for Open Data apps made me reach for my notes on classifying student apps at Uni Aegean. So, here is a 10-attributes simple schema that could help potential users search and find apps on the web:

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See my "selected" entries from the table of contents:

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